Adaptation

What happens when human beings establish colonies on distant worlds, leave them isolated for centuries, and then return to discover what they have become? In Mack Reynolds’s Adaptation, Earth’s representatives encounter human societies that have developed along radically different paths from the civilization that founded them. On distant colony worlds such as Genoa and Texcoco, environment, isolation, and generations of independent development have transformed the descendants of the original settlers, raising an unsettling question about what it means for two societies to share the same human origins. First published during the classic era of science fiction, Adaptation is a thought-provoking work of social science fiction exploring colonization, cultural evolution, human adaptability, divergent civilizations, and humanity’s future among the stars.